Twit me!

I am succumbing to the social networking fever. Woe. As if I don’t have enough going on in my life.

Twitter is incredibly compulsive and addictive. But feel free to follow me on it anyway. 😉

There is a lot of chatter about the bushfires down in Victoria at the moment. My heart goes out to all those people who are struggling to survive down there.

Technical issues

My laptop appears to be creaking at the seams. The battery is not doing very well and I suspect it needs to be replaced. It likes to switch off the laptop when it gets within sniffing distance of 50% of juice left.

And the keychain just got corrupted, which means that I lost all my passwords for everything. Argh. It has taken me half an hour to fix the damn thing and dig up all my passwords.

My poor little iBook is about 5 years old now, so I can’t really blame it. It’s been a good machine until now. Of course, it picks the month that I’m really strapped for cash and can’t afford to buy a new battery. It picks the time that I’m wound up in writing every day in a place where I can’t plug it in (namely, on a train).

Oh well. The corruption is fixed and I will just have to cope with the battery issues until I can get a new one. Wish me luck!

Here I am in my handbasket

It’s possible that I just sold my soul.  I finally got around to unlocking my Facebook login and Doing Stuff with it.  I am so doomed.  Of course, I set up an Apocalypse Blog group for a bit of shameless self-promotion, but we’ll see if anyone takes the bait on that one (besides the people I bully into joining, that is).

I did finally find an old friend of mine, whose contact details I lost when he shifted city.  I have missed talking to him – I can’t believe it’s been almost two years.  But I’ve hooked up with him again now, and no doubt we’ll be gossiping like crazy in no time.  I looked for a few other old friends last night, but couldn’t find any traces of them online.  I wish I had kept in better contact with people.

I can’t believe I’ve signed up to Facebook.  Ahhhh.

Happy New Year!

It’s that time again!  How did that happen?

2008 was a strange year.  It started off in a state of limbo and wondering if my family and I would ever make it to Australia.  For a while, it was very uncertain.  And then all the packing came to a head, and we upped and left the country that I had lived in for 20 years.  Around the other side of the world, I had a new life to put together, a new career – everything.

It’s been exciting, it’s been good, and despite my cautions and reservations, it was the right move for me.  Despite the good friends I left behind.  Friends can be visited, and have been missed terribly.  I think of you often.

That said, I’m not sorry to see the back of 2008.  It’s been stressful too, and we’ve had our setbacks.  Moving into 2009, there are a few things about my situation that are not good.  I’m hoping that they will change soon.

Right now, I am looking forward.  I have plans for my writing that have got me enthused and energised.  Sometimes I stop and think about the amount of projects and plans I have on my plate, and I have to sit down.  When did I get so busy?  How did this happen?  

Let’s see.  I have:

• the novel – edit and submit
• the Apocalypse Blog – ongoing (the current target is six months, though I’d like to get a year out of it)
• short stories – write more, edit and submit
• the writing group – lots of stuff to do there, though most of it ticks over on its own
• Script Frenzy – I’d like to do this this year, if only because I’ve never written a script before and at one point it sounded like fun.  I also have plans to be an ML for it (as I was for NaNo in 2008 and 2007).  It’s entirely possible that I’m insane.

I think that’s it.  Sometimes I stop and wonder how I’m going to get it all done.  Most of the time I just try to get my head down and plough on through.  I guess I have no excuses for being bored, huh?

It feels good to be doing something with it all, though.  It’s about time.  I feel like I’ve wasted enough of my life not pushing this stuff, even though it has always been my first love.  Now, it’s time.  

To everyone reading this, and to everyone that lives in my heart, I wish you all the best for this new year.  I am thinking of you.

Good luck and good health, my friends.  Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas!

I hope everyone out there has a great Christmas (or celebration of choice).  Be well, be healthy, and be happy.  May next year be brighter and bolder than the last!

Write on, write long, write yay!

Here we go

The Apocalypse Blog goes live today.  omg.

It has been a crazy two weeks, trying to pull together all the background stuff, getting the hosting and domain sorted out, wrangling WordPress and fiddling with code.  It’s been forever since I played with html.  But it looks the way I want it to, I got the first week written up and scheduled in plenty of time, and now all I have to do is wait for it to start.

I feel like there should be some kind of fanfare.  Instead, it’ll just post itself quietly while no-one looking.  Possibly with some nonchalant whistling.

I’m looking forward to getting on with it.  It’s a crazy thing to take on, between a full time job and a novel that I’m determined to edit and polish and get Out There.  Not to mention the writing groups.  When did I get so busy?

At the moment, it’s a good kind of busy.  And I’m excited about all of it.  All I need now is for the exhaustion to leave me alone so I can get on with it.  I can hope. 😉